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White was born in Lewiston, Maine.
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Education
In 1899, White graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick. White studied law and was admitted to the bar, afterward beginning to practice in Lewiston.
Career
White was from the United States. state of Maine and served in the United States. House of Representatives before being elected to the United States. Senate, where he was Senate Minority Leader and later Majority Leader before his retirement. He took office on March 4 of the following year and served until March 3, 1931 (65th–71st Congresses). He left the House in 1931 after being elected to the Senate in late 1930.
In Congress, White served as chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (66th Congress), the House Committee on Woman Suffrage (67th through 69th Congresses), the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (70th and 71st Congresses), and the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (80th Congress).
He also served as a presidential appointee on a variety of commissions. White was reelected in 1936 and 1942 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1949.
According to John Gunther"s 1947 book Inside United States.A., as the titular party floor leader, "his chief function is to hold the balance between two much more dominant and vivid men, Taft and Vandenberg..Everybody likes White. Few people pay much attention to him."
White was one of a handful of senators who voted against the elevation of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court in 1937 based on his alleged Klan membership.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1948.
White died in Auburn and is interred at the Mountain. Auburn Cemetery.
White was married twice, first to Anna Pratt of Lewiston in 1903. A one son, Herbert Frye White, was born in 1904.
In 1914, Anna Pratt White and an infant daughter Helen Hayden White both died in childbirth.
In 1917 White married the widow Nina Lumbard Lunn.
Politics
The political career of White began when he was elected as a Republican to the United States. House of Representatives in 1916. He was elected minority leader by his colleagues (1944–1947), and became majority leader when his party held a majority in the 80th Congress (1947–1949).
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Political Party
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